NMLP P-035773 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup · Derby and Miller (Auburn, NY) · 1853
The title page reads 'Auburn: Derby and Miller, 1853,' and the true first printing carries no mention of a print-run count ('___ Thousand') at the head of the title page, a phrase later printings added as sales climbed toward 30,000 copies within three years
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035773 for "Twelve Years a Slave" by Solomon Northup (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035773, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).